Also, my main complaint is that unless it's being shown on a real widescreen display (i.e. projected in a theatre, not being letterboxed on a narrower TV), then the screen is not bigger. It is smaller.slowtiger wrote:This is a common mistake in thinking, like in "The screen is bigger, so we have more possibilities to fill it". Hitchcock said something about Cinemascope, other directors do, in interviews and books.I personally like when a filmmaker can use the wider aspect ratio in telling the story. It gives the director more options in framing a shot, and more flexibilit
Again, this is spoken by someone who refuses to watch a movie with the sides chopped off to fit on a 4:3 screen. I always choose the letterboxed widescreen version if the movie was shot widescreen to begin with (even though they still chop off some of the sides most of the time.)